Word: fourth
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Women's fencing tied for fourth in the New England Championships at Providence...
...frustrating," said coach Joe Bertagna after his charges had lost 4-1 to Boston University in Saturday night's consolation game. "We played well enough both nights to get something out of this, but I guess somebody has to finish fourth," he added...
Neighboring Ganymede, like Callisto, is at least half composed of water and ice. It shows sinuous ridges and crisscrossing fractures that look like earthly fault lines-possibly caused by what Soderblom calls "water quakes." Ganymede's surface is less cratered than Callisto's and only a fourth its age, about 1 billion years...
When news of the fourth murder broke, the black community reacted. State Senator Bill Owens and the mothers of the four victims demanded a public meeting with Mayor Kevin White, who hastily arranged a conference at the Bates School in Dorchester. At the meeting, which was reported on page five of the Boston Herald American and page 15 of The Boston Globe, the Mayor insisted that "community participation" was the answer to the problem of violence in the black neighborhoods, and "not necessarily" increased police protection which was the solution had demanded...
...apathetic response of the police, city officials, and media to the complaints of black residents are not without precedent. On February 7, the day the fourth black victim was discovered, scuffling and fighting between black and white students broke out in racially tense Hyde Park High School. The fight began in one room at 10:30 a.m. and quickly spread. Thirty minutes later, all the white students were evacuated by the police and school officials, while the black students were kept in class to "simmer down." Since Hyde Park High is 40 per cent white, black parents wondered...